Issues

Stage Details

Legislation -
Placed on Calendar
(Senate)
-
Sept. 14, 2000

Legislation -
Bill Passed
(House)
(315-102) -
May 11, 2000(Key vote)

Title: Conservation and Reinvestment Act of 1999

Vote Result

Yea Votes

Nay Votes

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that would use approximately $45 billion in revenues from offshore drilling on the federally owned Outer Continental Shelf to fund land acquisition, conservation, and habitat protection programs over a period of fifteen years.

Highlights:

Requires that the Congressional Budget Office certify the following before any of the funding for this bill is distributed:

Congress is meeting goals to cancel all publicly held debt by 2013;

There is no on-budget deficit; and

Neither Social Security nor Medicare is likely to run a deficit within 5 years after enactment.

Prohibits federal government from purchasing private property unless the owner is willing to sell, or Congressional approval of that specific purchase is obtained.

$1 billion annually to 35 coastal states and territories, including those that border the Great Lakes, to mitigate the impact of offshore oil and gas activity.

$900 million to guarantee annual funds for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to be split evenly between federal agencies and states, in order to conserve open lands.

$350 million annually for fish and wildlife conservation, restoration, and education programs.

$200 million annually for restoration of federal and Indian lands.

$150 million for conservation easements that facilitate the recovery of threatened and endangered species.

$125 million annually for continuing the provisions contained in the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978.